Chapter 18

"What are you doing Wyatt?" his father questioned as he pushed his wife and her sisters back.

"Don't worry Dad it won't hurt. Not one bit" Wyatt said as he made a familiar gesture with his hand.

Instantly the group found themselves entrapped inside of a black crystal cage. Gasp escaped their mouths as they tried desperately to comprehend just what their son and nephew was thinking in that sick, twisted mind of his.

"What the hell did you do that for?" the boy's mother demanded.

"Oh mother. With you being in a very compromising position such as you are, I would keep myself in line, other wise this could get a hell of a lot more difficult. I promise you"

"Are you threatening me?" the woman replied showing no sighs of fear. After all she was still his mother and evil or not there was no way in hell Piper would ever tolerate such disrespect.

"Ha I don't make threats mother I make promises and if you keep pissing me off you're going to force me to make an example out of you" the man spoke with blank stare.

"Who the hell do you think you are?" the boy's father responded unable to take his son's lack of respect any longer. "We're your parents Wyatt and we demand that you let us out right now!"

"Or what father? You're going to take me over your knee and teach me a lesson? Ha, we both know that's not going to happen. But let me fill you in on how the rest of the evening's going to go. First I'm going to find my pain in the ass of a little brother then I'm going to whip up a nifty little spell that will carry us back to the future and only then will you be released and free to go about your sad, pathetic little lives"

"You're crazy. Chris is never going to let you find him until he does what he has to, to turn you back" the woman spoke a little softly now worried for the well being of her youngest son and wondering just what the hell went on that caused her son to turn evil again.

"Dearest mother you shouldn't worry yourself with such things that are way beyond your understanding and mental capacity" the man said with an evil smirk.

"You evil bastard" the youngest sister responded as she tried to comfort her sister who wasn't quite sure what to say to her evil son.

"Oh come now Aunty Paige surely you don't mean me? After all my parents were married when they had me and wanted me so very much. Now yours on the other hand weren't married and couldn't wait to get rid of you. So who's the bastard in this situation?"

"You hatful little shit" Phoebe said shifting her gaze from her wicked nephew to her heartbroken sister. "We love her no matter what and she is still our sister meanwhile your little brother can't stand the likes of you. In fact you make Chris sick to his stomach and he couldn't wait to get away from you fast enough and truth be told if we had known what you would grow to be, then I'm pretty sure our perfect angel would have been an only child"

"SHUT UP!" the man yelled before putting his usual emotionless mask back on.

"Oh what's wrong little nephew, did I hit a sore spot?" the middle witch said with a smile happy that she could get under her nephew's skin and give her sister some satisfaction.

"Actually I'm just sick of hearing your voice. Now if you'll excuse me I have a brother to find an evil empire to get back to" Wyatt spoke before black orbing out and leaving a speechless Halliwell family behind with each one of them hoping for the best yet fearing the worst.

In the darkest and least pleasant part of the underworld Chris walked around cautiously trying to watch his back until he found who he was looking for. "I know you're down here" the boy whispered in the silence as he side stepped to avoid a fiery pit. He continued his search until he heard voices coming from a nearby cave. Being sure to remain quiet and unseen Chris walk behind a wall of rocks, creeping closer and closer to the three figures until he was standing directly behind them with only a large rock between him and the person responsible for the evil that is Wyatt Matthew Halliwell.

"We're running out of time!" the man yelled to his two accomplishes.

"Just tell us what to do" one of them spoke obviously hungry for a kill.

"Do you really think it will be that simple? Wyatt is the most powerful being to ever be born unto the universe if we get too close without being prepared them we will setting ourselves up to be killed. No, we must be extremely careful"

"If that's true then why do you suppose he let you go?" questioned the second demon.

"Actually I'm rather surprised by that move myself" the man replied.

He wasn't the only one pondering that same exact thought. Chris too wondered why Wyatt had let the fallen Elder go. What the hell was he thinking, he contemplated? He then began to replay the words his brother spoke to him during their conversation in their parent's bedroom a few hours before everything began to fall apart.

Flashback

"I don't understand" Chris spoke not able to comprehend just how his evil brother from the other time line was able to take over the good version.

"And that's why I'm the Source and you're not" the man smugly replied. "I used him, I used them all and they fell for it, like lambs to the slaughter. You see Chris ever step, every detail was planned. I possessed the Elder who gave Dad the brilliant idea to bring back Gideon and Barbus thinking that it was the only way to save you when in actuality it was the only way I could put my destiny back on track"

"That can't be. Our timelines doesn't exist any more" the boy said still in a state of shock.

"Hey genius try to keep up will you. Once they were resurrected both timelines were made to exist. But now that I was able to show myself the light sort to speak I've put things back to where their supposed to be. Not what my annoying martyr of a little brother wants them to be"

"All I went through was for nothing" the boy replied solemnly as images of what could have been flashed through his mind.

"Oh come now little brother, all isn't lost. You still have me and because this was so much fun I won't kill you. Don't get me wrong you will pay for betraying me but at least I'm willing to spare your life. This time anyway" the man said moving to stand behind his brother again.

"Wyatt? Chris? Is everything ok up there" Piper Halliwell voice rose from the lower level.

"Yeah Mom, we're fine. We'll be down in a minute" Wyatt yelled back. "One word of this to them Chris and I swear to you the hell I put you through the first time around will pale in comparison to what I'll do to you this time" the man warned before changing his appearance back to what it was. "Ugh! You are so going to pay for this. Excalibur" the man shouted causing the sword to return to the sword.

"How did you change him?"

"Stop annoying me with your mindless dribble Chris. Face the facts that you lost and I won." the man said before taking hold of his brother's arm and orbing out

End of Flashback

That's it, he thought. If he could find a way to take out Gideon before he could get to the younger version of his brother then he could put everything back on track. That's why Wyatt had let that monster go. He needed him to traumatize his younger self so he could be sure to choose the path of evil once again and continue his rule. Now only one question remained. How the hell was he going to take out a powerful Elder and end the threat to his brother?

"You shouldn't think so loudly young Christopher" a familiar voice called out from behind him before his world went black.

Two men then picked up the limp form and chained him down with magical restraints much to the delight of their leader. He now had what he needed to trap the Halliwell boy and end the threat to humanity once and for all.

"Now all we have to do is wait for the older boy to come and collect his younger brother and when he does, we'll be ready for him" the Elder spoke as a wicked grin formed on his head, remaining completely unaware that the man he feared most was already there.

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